National Republican., 1887-04-04
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
WHAT BELIEVE. ByCouNT LEON ToLsToI.
Translated from the Russian by Constantine
Popoff New York: William 8. Gottsbergsr,
IL Murray street. Bale, A. 8. Witherbee

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WHAT BELIEVE. ByCouNr LEON ToIsro1.
Translated from the Russian by Constantine
Popoff New York william g. Gottsberger,
IL Murray street. Bale, A. 8. Witherbee
q Co.
What he believes we prefer you to find
out from perusal OF this volume, simply
stating that his faith Ia founded on the
teachings Of Jesus Christ.
Among his indubitable conditions neces.
sary for happiness, is: "Labor, congenial,
free labor, physical labor, which gives a
man good appetite and sound, invigorat-
Ing sleep" Again: "Tbe further advanced
men are In worldly prosperity, the less &C.
cessible that happiness is for them. The
greater part OF them are adulterers, and
ESlmn''y ESsn ss2 Ssp0upss be- a no fa% aa,erss ss
they consider " children as
burden rather than a Joy, and try by all
possible means to make their unions sterile.
II they have children, they take no Joy in
them. They are obliged to condde them to
others, for the most part 10 complete
strangers. At frat they are left TO the care
OF foreign nurses or governesses, then sent
to some government school, and the chill
dren grow up as miserable nc their parents,
and often have but one feeling toward their
they may inherit their property. These
men are not prisoners, but the result Is
more painful than that entire separation
from all family ties to which prisoner Is
condemned"
This book is only adapted to persons
willing TO think, and accustomed 10 think
ing.
CHARLIE LUCKEN. AT SCHOOL AND COL.
LEGE BY the Rev. H. c. ADAMS, A. NJ,
Author OF ''For James or George" DC. With
eight illustrations by +. Finnemore. Phil
adephia: J. b. Lippincott Company. Sale,
A. B. witherbee Co. sl.5o.
Though this book contains the ex-
periences and adventures Of an. English
youth, who finished the lessons OF our
world many years ago, yet they will be In
teresting to every school boy and collegian
Of America and Of the present day. Sympa-
thy with such stories is immortal. Nor
Is 1t confined to youth, but age remembers
and loves to revisit those wild times, either
Ia his own or any other personality.
So here 10 pleasure for all. The incidents
related are extraordinary, but evidently not
beyond truth.
THE CURRENT. March %. 10 cents; a a
year. Chicago. 1913 and l25 La Sale street.
Publishers.
"My Cousin Dorothy" "The Mocking
Bird" and "Woman as an Author" are
articles especially interesting, while the
continued stories, "The Mark on the Log"
and "The Cripple Of Pine Bay" well re.
ward perusal. Thoughts" happens to be
the only poem really good. "Comment'
and the following papers are valuable. The
main portion Of this publication 10 highly
desirable, and whoever has seen q number
Of It will desire continuous acquaintance
with the Current.
MAGAZINE iA;7 E OF, OF a AMERICAN M HISTORY; Eo I;
Lafayette place. Publishers.
The best portrait we have seen of Henry
Ward Beecher, with calm, thoughtful, kind,
and powerful expression, on which features
we have looked In the life, is here, as front.
ispiece. Other illustrations are William Cob
bett, William Coleman, Noah Webster, j,
X. Paulding, Washington Irving, the Charles
| Flint Putnam Memorial Tablet, and two
quite comical pictures-comical simply be-
cause representing the olden time-one be-
| Ing the waltz dance Of the end Of the last
century, wherein the train Of the lady'a
short-waisted, very narrow robe is gath
cred up and held at extremity on
the gentleman's high collared shoulder,
his swallow tails and long stockinged
legs appearing below. The attitude
OF the figures, both embracing at the neck,
bending away at ungraceful angles In the
center, and again uniting at the slippered
toes, may readily produce laughter, though
once the standard Of elegance. How
ridiculous will time make US all, dress and
act and live and move as We may. WHIT
shall dare pose as herof "Will Wizard
10 the companion piece; again Q gen
tlemen Of the antique, full-wigged
cue-tied, caned, coated with the many
buttoned, swallow tailed garment, frilled
vested with embroidery, watch seals pen
dent, small clothes, stockings, revealing
much development OF calf, and shoes Q
ample buckles. The good man stands
like Colossus of Rhodes, comforting hi
his broad back before flaming wood fire
Now the text is even more attractive thai
the drawings. "The Transition Period o
the American Press" which, with minia
ture representations of pages Of variou
ancient Journals, gives q good idea OF tn
editors and their methods as exhibited abou
the beginning Of the present century. W
are pleased to find here kind and tru
mention Of our once friends, Gales
seaton, Of the National Intelligence,
7 "Gov. Spotswood's Horseshoe Campaign
1716," Is q we'll told and vigorous story
l The editor, Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, offers
D beautiful and noble tribute to Henry War
Beecher. A curious phase Of early westerI
life is seen in "The Heatherly War.
Various other papers, alike pleasing
. and valuable, compose the magazin
Whosoever would intimately know hii
tory will have the opportunity here. Il
more than in the ponde rous tones, whic
? pompously display the worlds gran
! events-merely omitting their seer
l springs, causes which produced the wol
> derful effects.
t THE AMERICAN MUSICIAN. March %.
q cents; So q year. New York: SS5 Broa diva!
{ Publishers.
Q Illustrations first: A portrait of Alexande
Liberati, cornet virtuoso, who, lik
Alexander the Great, has no moro worlt
to conquer. Then the grand face OF vert
is grandly presented. Musical articles
, many kinds, from essays to news, are ne.
following, and, comprehensively speakin
the entire periodical is rich for true love
of sweet soundg.
.. COOKERY FOR INvALIDs. By THOMAS
MURRAY, author Of "F ify Soups" q
Il New York: White, Stok cd, Allen.
!. cents. Sale, Edward W. Koch.
a 1t is said that many physicians in oldt
4 time were cooks. All OF them should ha
y been then, and should be now How el
s direct nurses to prepare properly food
n inyalIdsi Nothing Ia m ore important
n seasons of sickness. But, the doctors fa
!. ing in this Invaluable X nowledge, oft
more beneficial than their medicines, for
It steps our author, whose cad, probably
l. Is sllvered Ger with age.
d And long experience makes him sage.